Dynamically changing skins

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5/4/2011 3:49:45 PM
crippsy
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Dynamically changing skins

I would like a user to switch between two skins to decided on what look and feel they would prefer. In non-mojoportal sites I would do this with a bit of javascript as per http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/stylesheetswitcher.htm

As the styles are kept in the skins has anyone come across a way of doing this in mojoportal. I don't think themeroller is the answer (or is it?).

I realise I could give the user admin access to go and change the site settings, but would prefer not to do that.

 

5/5/2011 2:33:58 AM
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Re: Dynamically changing skins

Hi maybe you can use the jQueryUI ThemeRoller, see more info in this link

http://www.mojoportal.com/mojoportal-and-jqueryui-themeroller.aspx

 

5/5/2011 3:34:11 AM
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Re: Dynamically changing skins

As far as I gather the themeroller manages the jqueryui settings.

I initially thought that this was for just the Juery features, but after using the demo realise it is more than this as site colours can also be controlled.

That being said, I still don't think it is the solution I am looking for, I was looking for this to change the Skins created rather than the jquery them.

If there is no way of doing this can my new skin be set as a Jquery theme.

 

5/5/2011 6:19:32 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Dynamically changing skins

You can enable per user skins from Site Settings and then users can try any of the available skins in the site.

We don't currently have the preview link there like we do in Site Settings, but I will add a wish list item for that in our project tracker.

Per user skins is not going to work well if you are using .NET 3.5 under Medium Trust because of the way the theme.skin files can't be loaded from the skin folder in that configuration. As long as you have either Full Trust or .NET 4 hosting it should work ok.

Best,

Joe

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